republican victory in cincinnati. for jd vance. who emerged the victor in a crowded primary field for the u.s. senate. this is the race to replace retiring senator rob portman. he was running against a field of five other major candidates and emerged as the winner at the end thanks to the endorsement from former president trump. this has been viewed as a test of the former president s strength inside the republican party and one of the first people vance thanked tonight. was mr. trump. i have got to thank the 45th the president of the united states. donald j. trump. ladies and gentlemen one for giving us an example of what could be in the country. remember 2019 when wages were going up and not down. 2019 when workers were doing well in the country. not struggling terribly. thanks to the president for everything for endorsing me. jd vance of course best known
26 states could feature abortion bans if roe is over turned. last hour i asked cnn legal analyst what impact the draft opinion will have on women if it becomes the courts final decision. this decision will have a catastrophic impact on women all over the country. if this draft becomes a final opinion. over the next couple of months. it will prohibit women from having control over their reproductive health. this is something in the works for decades by republicans. so as they are fighting about the leak. they don t want to talk about the substance because this is what they have planned. what they hoped for. and now everything they wanted out of the three justices that were apoined by trump, they re getting. susan collins the comment about kavanaugh and gorsuch saying something inconsistent to her vs. what appears to be their
president s strained relationship with the intelligence community? it s worsening it. i ve heard from former cia and fbi folks saying this is putting a real strain on the five eyes. the five major countries the united states shares intelligence with. and what s happening here is that barr by going to these countries because he s part of the justice department, he s understood mining that very sacred kind of intel partnership tradition these countries have with the iunited states and tha the fbi and cia have cultivated over several years. they re looking at this saying this seems like something the president wants. this investigation seems politically motivated and they re wondering obviously whether there s any kind of nonpartisanship left in the justice department and the ic and by doing that, i think barr s also undermining the credibility of an investigation that john do you remember was apoined to lead, the prosecutor that was supposed to be
to advertise legal team has emerged. patrick fitzgerald is a long time friend and colleague of comey. we re learning he took this job last may. fitzgerald was the special counsel in the valerie plame leak investigation. he was apoined to that by james comey and it was that investigation that led to the conviction of former white house official scooter libby and last week, president trump pardoned him. so expect that to come up u tonight. some 600 people will be in the crowd and he s going to be answering questions from every day americans including many of the students here at william and mary. this is of course james comey s
it makes one wonder why this president stood pbehind him and had so much respect for him or loyalty for him. totally agree. but can we get one factual question, matthew or jeff toobin, this grand jury that has subpoenaed michael flynn s records and this sort of thing, that grand jury is in northern virginia. does that grand jury then full under mueller or and mueller then in charge or something separate? well, i think the answer will be mueller will have to make that chance. he will undoubtedly as part of his information gathering process learn of what that grand jury is doing and then decide if he wants to take that over. matthew, would you say that s right? that seems right. we don t know for sure. obviously it s kind of poined but it s going to have to but somebody in the justice department has to otherwise make